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12 thoughts on “1999 Reese’s Cup GIF-Cap”

We had a rule in my household in the 90s…Professional gymnastics competitions were embarrassing garbage that gave the sport a bad name and forever tarnished the past accomplishments of the gymnasts who took part in them. Therefore, under no circumstances were they to be watched or recorded on VHS.

I became a gymnerd after Atlanta and it was striking to me how like 75 percent of the meets the following quad (at least, the ones the US participated in) were like “The Super Spectacular Pro-Am Magnificent Seven Special, Starring the Magnificent Seven (and Maybe Vanessa if She’s Feeling It).” No wonder the US was so unprepared for Tianjin and Sydney!

I came of age in the early/mid 90s. 90s fashions were indeed terrible and hairstyles were far worse, largely because it was super-popular to wear things that hid your body instead of flattering it. Tailoring all but disappeared, except for the first time it was cool to wear a sports bra as a top (unless you’d just won the FIFA Women’s World Cup and wanted to celebrate by taking off your jersey in 1999, then you caught national hell for it). I suspect people wouldn’t live in yoga pants today if we hadn’t taken that leap in the 90s. lol

Those outfits while they’re having that oh-so-natural conversation about injuries on ASU’s campus – I mean, how can just clothing make gymnasts look kind of out of shape?!?! Amazing.

But I might be biased, too – I hated 90s fashion even in the 90s, but at least it was a heck of a lot better than the 80s and back then vintage clothes were still cheap, unlike today. 😉 The great thing was it was the beginning of “find your own style” and “express yourself through fashion” instead of dressing like everyone else, and fortunately for everyone, that hasn’t really changed since then.

Some things are so bad they’re bad and other things (like this) are even worse than bad yet are wonderful.

Why not have a Reese’s Cup 2019 Christmas Revival? I’d pay good money to see Sam Mikulak *intentionally* fly off the high bar for once or Simone do a “burn the code of points” skit after dismounting beam with a double-double.

I attended this. It was the year after I moved to Arizona and I could not believe my luck that this was occurring in Tempe. The dad from Fresh Prince was a judge, Mya performed the Rugrats single, and Kristie Phillips did some ridiculous dance on the beam in pink boots (as shown). It was ridiculous and I kept those autographs up in my room for multiple years.